[Talk-us] Relations, cycle routes, shapefiles

[Nathan Edgars II]

On 2/3/2011 3:25 PM, PJ Houser wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have some basic questions:
>
> 1) Why are relations preferred for bike routes?
If there's a continuous route from point A to point B, it's easier to 
keep track of it as a relation. If there's just a signed network using 
"bike route" signs, there's no benefit of a relation. It there's just a 
standalone cycleway that's not part of a large system, it shouldn't even 
get lcn tags.

http://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/3462